Re: [Zope-dev] relations in objects

2003-10-10 Thread Paul Winkler
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:46:24PM -0700, Jason Corbett wrote: Thanks for your reply. I've actually been thinking in an object oriented form for a while. I've looked at implimenting this project in Java using either prevailance or a object persistence model that mapped to a RDBMS. I like

RE: [Zope-dev] relations in objects

2003-10-10 Thread Tres Seaver
On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 05:51, Bjorn Stabell wrote: From: Paul Winkler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:46:24PM -0700, Jason Corbett wrote: How does an object in zope know where it sits in the hirearchy, The only unique identifier that zope provides is the

RE: [Zope-dev] relations in objects

2003-10-10 Thread Simon Pamies
Hi Jason, if you want to deal with references and unique ids and that stuff, feel free to take a look at http://plone.org/development/current/projects/Ticle and perhaps to contribute your ideas or even sourcecode. -sp ___ Zope-Dev maillist -

Re: [Zope-dev] relations in objects

2003-10-10 Thread Dieter Maurer
Jason Corbett wrote at 2003-10-9 20:46 -0700: ... How does an object in zope know where it sits in the hirearchy, and how does it reach other objects. In fact, the object does not know it. In Zope, you usually do not deal with the object itself but with an acquisition wrapper. This

Re: [Zope-dev] relations in objects

2003-10-09 Thread Paul Winkler
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 05:07:28PM -0700, Jason Corbett wrote: to reference in some intelligent way between objects in zope, and I need a way to query for a list of them. google for mxmRelations. It does many-to-many relationships so yuo might have to modify it a bit if you really need to

Re: [Zope-dev] relations in objects

2003-10-09 Thread mlong
Hi Jason, I am not a zope developer, I am a semi-new user who started with zope coming from the same mindset as yourself. One of the biggest challanges(at least for me) is to wrap your mind around object oriented programming. The zope database is an object oriented database. This means that you

Re: [Zope-dev] relations in objects

2003-10-09 Thread Jason Corbett
Thanks for your reply. I've actually been thinking in an object oriented form for a while. I've looked at implimenting this project in Java using either prevailance or a object persistence model that mapped to a RDBMS. I like the idea of zope, so maybe I should clarify my question: How does an

Re: [Zope-dev] relations in objects

2003-10-09 Thread Leonardo Rochael Almeida
On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 00:46, Jason Corbett wrote: Thanks for your reply. I've actually been thinking in an object oriented form for a while. I've looked at implimenting this project in Java using either prevailance or a object persistence model that mapped to a RDBMS. I like the idea of

Re: [Zope-dev] relations in objects

2003-10-09 Thread Jason Corbett
I'm sorry for my ignorant use of the terms relation and relationship. I'll try to use the terms more appropriately in the future. I think I understand where I've become confused. In many of the persistance mechanisms I've looked at references to other objects were handled specially, and had